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Re: X and Window Mangers



On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 04:23:34PM +0100, Mark Baker wrote:
> > 1) ship an empty /etc/X11/window-managers with xbase
> > 2) mark it as a conffile
> 
> So you don't think other packages---such as the window managers---should
> modify it?

It's considered Bad Practice for a package to go about mucking with files
belonging to another package.  Providing a front end, as this suggestion
does, is the preferred solution.

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